Due Process: The Georgetown Law Library Blog - Special Collections

Online Archive of Records on Holocaust Era and Nazi Art Looting Released

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:56:00 -0500

The Slaw.ca blog out of Canada reports on a new online interactive archive with hundreds of thousands of records on the Holocaust Era and Nazi art looting.

The archive is available online from Footnote.com and includes records related to legal issues such as:

The Ardelia Hall Collection of records relating to the Nazi looting of Jewish possessions, including looted art
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial proceedings

The Slaw.ca entry also mentions two other collections related to the Nuremberg trials:

Yale's Avalon Project
Harvard's Nuremberg Trials Project

Another collection of Nuremberg trial materials is the University of Texas' collection of the trial notebooks of Judge Mallory Blair, one of three judges who presided over Nuremberg Case No. 3: U.S. v. Joseph Alstötter et al.

National Equal Justice Library Event

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:24:00 -0500

The Board of Directors of the Consortium for the National Equal Justice Library and Georgetown University Law Center are hosting a symposium and celebration of the National Equal Justice Library's (NEJL) arrival at Georgetown Law and the Library's acceptance of the Gary Bellow Papers. The symposium will be held Tuesday, March 25 from 1:30-4:30 on the 12th floor of Gewirz. The program, Gideon and Katrina: Legal Aid and Defender Programs at a Crossroads will explore the criminal and civil aspects of Gideon and the civil legal aid response to Hurricane Katrina. Speakers include: Martha Bergmark (Mississippi Center for Justice), Helaine Barnett (Legal Services Corporation), Jo-Ann Wallace (National Legal Aid and Defenders Association), Jonathan Smith (Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia), Esther Lardent (Pro Bono Institute), Norman Lefstein (Indiana School of Law), Ab Currie (Department of Justice, Canada), Janell Smith (Student Hurricane Network) and Peter Edelman (Georgetown Law).

An event honoring the NEJL at Georgetown, donation of the Bellow Papers and presentation of the Edgar and Jean Cahn Awards will take place in Gewirz from 4:30-6. A reception will follow from 6-8 in the Faculty Dining Room in Hotung.

Library of Congress photos available on Flickr

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:14:50 -0500

The Library of Congress has partnered with Flickr in a pilot project designed to increase user access to the Prints and Photographs Division's 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials. The project currently includes 3,000 images for which no copyright restrictions are known. The library is encouraging users to tag and make notes on images to help enhance the background information pertaining to the photographs. Additional information about the project can be found on the library's website.